Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma - Via Álvaro del Portillo, 21 - 00128 Roma – Italia www.unicampus.it Eugenio Guglielmelli Prorector for Research, Campus Bio-Medico University of Rome, Italy Member, Board of Funders, FET-FLAGSHIP Programme, Delegate of the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (MIUR) Member, ERANET FLAG-ERA Executive Board, WP Leader, MIUR Delegate Member, Human Brain Flagship Project Steering Committee Stakeholder Board Preparatory actions for the new FET Flagships Future and Emerging Technologies Giornata Nazionale di Lancio dei Bandi 2018-20 in Horizon 2020 Roma, 20 Novembre , 2017 Università di Tor Vergata
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Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma - Via Álvaro del Portillo, 21 - 00128 Roma – Italia
www.unicampus.it
Eugenio Guglielmelli
Prorector for Research, Campus Bio-Medico University
of Rome, Italy
Member, Board of Funders, FET-FLAGSHIP Programme,
Delegate of the Italian Ministry of Education, University
and Research (MIUR)
Member, ERANET FLAG-ERA Executive Board, WP
Leader, MIUR Delegate
Member, Human Brain Flagship Project Steering
Committee Stakeholder Board
Preparatory actions for the new FET Flagships
Future and Emerging Technologies
Giornata Nazionale di Lancio dei Bandi 2018-20 in Horizon 2020
Roma, 20 Novembre , 2017
Università di Tor Vergata
FET Flagships
• Science-driven, large-scale, multidisciplinary research initiative built around an
ambitious, unifying vision
• Address a grand S&T challenge requiring cooperation among a range of
disciplines and programmes, including both academia and industry
• Designed to convert scientific advances into technologies and into concrete
innovations that benefit Europe's society and economy
• Realised through a federated and sustained effort (~10 years duration, up to
€1billion) – i.e. by setting up large-scale partnerships that bring together the
leading researchers from a large number of research organisations (academia
and industry)
Apollo program
(“Man on the Moon”) Human Genome Project
The first two FET Flagship initiatives (2013 - 2023 )
Human Brain Project Graphene Flagship
www.humanbrainproject.eu 112 partners from 24 countries
www.graphene-flagship.eu 142 partners from 23 countries
In spring 2016, the European Commission opened a web-based public consultation on ideas for candidate Flagships.
Commissioner Oettinger hosted then on 15th December a
round-table conference with representatives from the Member States and from large scientific and industrial communities. 60 High-level participants
The outcome of the Round-table has been used to select the most promising candidate topics to be included in the call for preparatory actions, now open and closing February 2018.
EU consultation for new Flagships
Consultation of Member States
Italian Position Paper (MIUR) To identify topics for new candidate FET Flagships, the Ministry of Education,
University and Research of Italy adopted 6 criteria:
1. exploitation of the effort devoted to the support of the four pilot flagship projects
which were not selected in the previous FET FLAGSHIP call.
2. diversity and variety of the new topics with respect to topics addressed by and/or
related to communities already involved in ongoing or planned flagship projects or
other large-scale initiatives
3. the consistency of the topics with the Italian National Research Plan (PNR) and
with Italian Roadmap to the European Research Area
4. the preliminary, ex ante assessment of the existence of a scientific and
technological quality in the relevant researchers’ community
5. the qualification and level of maturity of the Italian stakeholder network potentially
interested in the proposed topics
6. the outcome of the consultation of the team of national experts involved in the
configurations of the Horizon 2020 programme committee.
6 candidate topics High priority topics: ICT for Future of Health, targeted by several candidate flagship proposals submitted to
the EU open consultation with a broad definition of this topic.
Next Generation Robotics, strategic for Europe competitiveness in a time of huge
investments on automation in Asian and American countries.
These two topics are strongly synergetic with each other, the progresses along one
topic powerfully boosting progress in the other and viceversa.
Medium priority topics: Renewable Energy, Environmental and Climate Change, satisfy the criteria, except for
not having a prior experience as a flagship pilot project supported by MIUR and by FLAG-
ERA.
ICT for Cultural Heritage, it represents a not very much explored field of research and
innovation in the landscape of the European Framework Programme. Therefore, it could
be worth a trial.
Low priority topics: Nanoarchitectronics, ICT for Social Sciences
These two topics point to communities which are at least partly already addressed by
ongoing or planned flagships or other large-scale initiatives
Proposals for candidate FET Flagships must address ONE of the following THREE main areas:
1. ICT and Connected Society,
2. Health and Life Sciences,
3. Energy, Environment and Climate change. https://ec.europa.eu/programmes/horizon2020/sites/horizon2020/files/02._h2020-fet-2018-2020_09_21_2017_prepublication.pdf
Smart Materials and Nanoscale Engineering: Novel nano-engineered materials and systems with properties enabling the design and manufacturing of radically new ICT components and devices creating disruptive technologies and market opportunities, for example in energy efficiency, data processing, smart manufacturing, smart interfaces, nano-bio devices, etc.
Robotics, Interfaces and Artificial Intelligence: a new generation of robotics technologies including soft and flexible robotics, bio-inspired robotics, new approaches to human-machine interaction and cooperation, cognition and artificial intelligence, giving rise to much smarter systems performing sophisticated functions opening radically new opportunities to address societal and economic challenges.
ICT for Social Interaction and Culture: new ICT technologies and approaches for empowering deep social interactions across diverse cultures, languages, goals, values, etc.; for understanding large-scale complex socio-technical systems and their interactions, interdependencies and evolutions and avenues for exploiting this understanding; and/or for collecting, preserving, studying and promoting Europe's unique cultural heritage and exploiting these to achieve major societal or economic benefits.
1. ICT and Connected Society
Disruptive technologies to Revolutionise Healthcare: New technologies and approaches aiming at a paradigm shift in the field of individualised prevention, prediction and treatment of diseases. This includes among others bioinformatics and modelling approaches to use patients' genetic expression patterns, metabolism and derived systems; novel and innovative nano-medicine approaches (e.g. technologies for novel sensors and imaging, organ-on-a-chip and bio-electronic medicine, drug delivery, …); network medicine; neuro-prosthetic technologies; regenerative medicine and biofabrication techniques to reprogram or replace human cells, tissues and whole organs and to integrate these in functioning body systems. Understanding Life by Exploring the Genome and the Cell: Novel technologies and approaches that enable a paradigm shift in studying and understanding the foundational building blocks of life, for example the functioning of the cell, and of cells within organisms, including structure and dynamics, and the full multi-omics (genome/epigenome/proteome/metabolome/connectome etc.) and their interactions. This will open up radically new opportunities such as developing novel nano-bio devices and technologies, advanced screening methods and analytical and morphological technologies, advanced therapies and contribute to the understanding of biological processes and pathological mechanisms.
2. Health and the Life Sciences
Earth, Climate Change and Natural Resources: New technologies
and approaches for high-precision modelling and simulation, including
the necessary data integration, that enable an in-depth understanding
of the earth, natural hazards and climate change. Their exploitation
and use should open up new opportunities for helping to
manage/mitigate their effects and impacts on human activity and
natural resources in a sustainable way in specific areas such as:
agriculture (ensuring food security and sustainable farming), forestry,
fisheries, protecting/restoring natural ecosystems, energy supply and
demand, etc.
Radically new Energy Production, Conversion and Storage
devices and systems: Disruptive technologies aiming at a paradigm
shift in renewable energy by exploring and exploiting radically new
principles and novel materials that can substantially reduce Europe's
dependence on fossil fuels and open new industrial opportunities for
their exploitation and sustainable development.
3. Energy, Environment and Climate change
Preparatory Actions: Concepts
What makes it a Flagship?
Unifying goal, Grand S&T challenge and Vision;
Grand Challenge and main "game-changer“ concept;
Goals and Objectives, new technologies (including
digital technologies)
Impact
Economy, society, science and technology
EU at the forefront with other regions of the world
EU Industry and innovation potential
Integration and EU added value
large-scale integration across disciplines
critical mass & involvement of academia, industry and
society at large
estimated effort scale and how long will it take to do so
Relevant Transnational, National & Regional ongoing
initiative
30
Flag-ERA JTC2016 Projects
• FET Flagships are THE opportunity for federating solid, well-established
research communities to pursue a common vision and R&I roadmap on well-defined, evidence-based topics
• Open calls are regularly available to join the three ongoing flagships • The clusters and topics of the current Call for CSA\Preparotry Actions are fully
in line with the Italian strategic research agenda and can be addressed by Italian top-level research communities
• Federating effort requires a systematic search and building of a critical mass of expertise, stakeholders and matching resources in tight synergy with ongoing programmes and initiatives at International, European, National and Regional level – and with industry
• New flagship proposals shall build on the shoulders of prior experience, i.e. consider the many lessons learned from the three ongoing flagship projects (vision, roadmap, governance, partnership dynamics, etc.)
Final Remarks
Spunti per la discussione
• Qual è una prima riflessione sull’andamento della partecipazione italiana negli anni 2013 – 2017 nelle due FET Flagships? Esempi: Graphene, Quantum Tech
• Come aumentare il coinvolgimento e il tasso di successo italiano nelle Preparatory Actions e nelle attuali e future FET Flagships? • Pitch presentations & Networking
• Quali altri iniziative internazionali, europee, nazionali e regionali si possono mettere in sinergia con le nuove proposte?
• Come stimolare e valorizzare la partecipazione industriale?
• Quali alleanze a livello delle diverse comunità scientifiche disciplinari e nazionali si possono ipotizzare?
